The match for 7th place was won by Guatemala 3-0. Fifth place was captured by Puerto Rico 3-0 over Dominican Republic.

Match Time

We start the same was with Joe K (S); Troy & Bourne (OH); Caldwell (OP); Ellis and Jayne (MB) and Shoji (L). USA is on their game – MEX is not. USA wins #1 25-15.

We go the same in #2 and it begins the same as USA has a big lead, but after some subs enter for MEX, they are getting hot. Digging balls; tooling blocks – they are putting pressure on us and we can’t seem to find an answer. Fortunately, a couple of late MEX errors allow us the win, 25-23.

We start the same way in 3, but the lull from the end of 2 continues and MEX takes an early lead. Fortunately, we get a little momentum back and then get a big boost from sub Joe Sunder at opposite. We ride the Sunder wave to victory 25-19 and win the match and the Bronze 3-0.

Going into today’s matches, Erik Shoji was the tournaments leading digger, passer and libero. Tri Bourne was in the top 5 of passing. Murphy Troy was #2 in point scoring. Unfortunately, I’ll be unable to give you the final results of this or the gold medal match as I’m sending this prior to the end. I urge you to go to https://mail.usav.org/exchweb/bin/redir.asp?URL=http://www.norceca.org/ for the complete wrap-up of the event.

Awards, then the parents are taking the team to “Tony Romas” for a final dinner. Back to the hotel to pack and a quick nap before boarding the bus for the airport at about 3:30a. Then back to the good ‘ole US of A

My pleasure writing these. Thanks for reading. Sorry about the typos as I don’t take the time to thoroughly proof.